We were ready to die for that! We believed in what we were doing. And we were ready to die for the revolution and for Black people.
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Rosemari Mealy (attorney and former BPP member): “Some of us thought - at the time the movie depicts - that the revolution was going to happen tomorrow or today. The panelists reflected on how they viewed the film's story, and how it aligned with their own experiences and viewpoints from then and now:ĭr.
(who was in his mother’s womb as she lay next to his father as he was being murdered), recounted the struggles he and his mother had of ensuring that Chairman Fred’s life would be accurately depicted in the film, whilst also acknowledging the near impossibility of Hollywood ever capturing a fully accurate account.
The conversations, as much as they were about the movie, were really about the history of the varied phases of the liberation struggle, of which Chairman Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party were a key part, and how those phases shaped our triumphs and successes, as well as the struggles and challenges which were present then and remain today. Rosemari Mealy, Haki and Safisha Madhubuti, Michael Simmons, Michael McCarty, Rachel Harding, and Fred Hampton’s son Chairman Fred Jr., and was guided by Gloria Smith, Raheem Cooper-Thomas, Joshua McKeever, and Justin Douglas, with libations and a “Stand Up” rallying cry by Mama Edie Armstrong and Baba Atiba Walker. The following people weaved an immensely rich collection of lived experiences into two hours of shared memories, education, admonishments, and enlightenment: Dominique Fishback was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for her role as Deborah Johnson/Akua Njeri in the film.Ī group of revolutionary practitioners who were, in those days, young contemporaries and young adults working in parallel or coordination with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party, came together more than 50 years later for a Zoom conversation on 11th March to reminisce about those times and how and if they were illuminated by the movie’s account. It has further been nominated for five Academy Awards in all, including Oscar nominations for its two extraordinary lead actors, Daniel Kaluuya as Chairman Fred Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as FBI informant William O’Neal.
The film has become an instant classic and is the first Hollywood feature film written, produced, and financed entirely by Black people to be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Best Picture of the year. The film is told through William O’Neal, an FBI informant and BPP insider, who set up Hampton and Clark. These powerful statements symbolize the compelling intergenerational conversation which took place on 11th March 2021 based on the movie “Judas and the Black Messiah.” The movie tells the true story of the assassinations of Illinois Black Panther Party members Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, on 4th December 1969 by the Chicago Police Department. “You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution.” said Michael McCarty quoting Fred Hampton.
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